Since 1957, Wins without facing a batter
Posted by Andy on June 27, 2007
Sean's last post about saves reminded me of this equally rare feat: getting a win without facing a batter. Here's all 15 times it's been done since 1957:
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB **SO** HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+------+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Chad Paronto 2007-05-06 ATL LAD W 6-4 7-7 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 2 Tyler Johnson 2006-09-27 STL SDP W 4-2 8-8 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 3 Bill Bray 2006-06-03 WSN @MIL W 4-3 8-8 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 4 Tyler Walker 2005-09-17 SFG LAD W 2-1 8-8 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 5 Paul Shuey 2003-07-24 LAD COL W 1-0 11-11f,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6 Kyle Farnsworth 2003-07-02 CHC @PHI W 1-0 8-8 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 7 B.J. Ryan 2003-05-01(1) BAL @DET W 5-2 7-7 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0.00 8 Scott Bailes 1998-05-21 TEX SEA W 9-8 9-9f ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 9 Derek Lilliquist 1994-04-13 CLE @CAL W 6-5 9-9 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 10 Gary Wayne 1993-05-25 COL @HOU W 7-5 7-7 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 11 Al Osuna 1990-09-28 HOU ATL W 2-1 10-10f,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 12 Larry Andersen 1986-06-23 HOU CIN W 7-6 9-9f ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 13 Greg Garrett 1970-07-01 CAL @MIL W 4-3 6-6 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0.00 14 Frank Carpin 1966-05-05 HOU CHC W 4-3 13-13f,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0.00 15 Jim Coates 1965-08-28 CAL DET W 4-3 7-7 ,W 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chad Paronto did it several weeks ago. He came into the game, then Juan Pierre was caught stealing, and Edgar Renteria hit a 2-run double next inning to get Paronto the win.
Last year, Tyler Johnson pulled off a doozie. Top of the 8th, runners on 2nd and 3rd with two outs, game tied at 1. Johnson comes in the face Mark Bellhorn and throws a wild pitch. Runner from 3rd scores, and the runner from 2nd tries to score but gets nailed it home to end the inning. An Albert Pujols 3-run homer later, Johnson is the winner.
Take a look at some of the other games on this list. Lots of weirdness.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Here's one for you. Pitchers who have no innings pitched and no pitches thrown in an appearance. http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/nZ5n
What I can't find, through PI at least, is an appearance by Ryan Franklin on Aug 23rd of last season where he came in mid-AB and completed a walk for Todd Coffey, who had been thrown out of the game. Franklin was then taken out of the game after throwing 2 pitches, but the pitches were credited to Coffey since he started the at bat. So Franklin gets credit for the appearance but essentially nothing else. I'm interested to know how many times something like that has happened. Any guesses on how to find those instances?
June 27th, 2007 at 9:35 am
This is the closest I can get, I think: http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/CUUs
But this list has a lot of clutter from pitchers who were announced but never pitched, presumably because of injury. You can see the difference in Franklin's appearance compared to some of the others if you look at the play-by-play. He is inserted into the game, a game event happens, and then he is removed. The others are inserted and removed all in the same event line.
Any ideas on how to just get instances like Franklin's?
June 27th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Sure. Do a PI search with BF (batters faced) = 0. I tried that and it works. Setting the criteria also that pitches = 0 eliminates Franklin's game--I'm not sure why. We'll need Sean to chime in here.
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